28 Quotes by Artur Schnabel

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.

Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Great music is better than it can be performed.

Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range,

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Practice in tranquility.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.